The South China Sea Policies Of Vietnam After The Cold War

In recent years, with development of the dispute in the South China Sea and the promotion of 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road, the study of the dispute in the South China Sea has become an academic focus. In this dispute, the nation hold the toughest attitude, the largest gain and the most systematic measure is Vietnam. Since national unity, Vietnam has claimed that the sovereignty of the Paracel Islands and the Spratly Islands belong to it, and gradually take unilateral measures to carry out its’ policies in the South China Sea. Vietnam’s South China Sea policies has caused the deterioration of the China-Vietnam relations, and a military maritime conflict broke out in 1988. The end of the Cold War is an important node of the adjustment of Vietnam’s South China sea policy. After the Cold War, the collapse of the CCCP result in seriously economic and military crisis in Vietnam which relies heavily on the aid of the CCCP. Based on this challenge, Vietnam adjusted its’ policies in the South China Sea and wanted to achieve reconciliation with China. In this process, Vietnam gradually improved its’ South China Sea policies system:At the domestic level, on the one hand, it established the "legitimacy" of islands which it occupied illegal in the South China Sea by "United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea "; on the other hand, it intensified the navy and air force continuously to maintain it s’ real interests. At the international level, on the one hand, Vietnam induced the United States, Japan, Russia and India to the dispute of the South China Sea to regard the dispute as an international issue; on the other hand, it put the dispute into the mechanism of the ASEAN to increase the pressure of China. Vietnam’s systematic South China Sea policies has gravely challenged China’s tenet "sovereignty belongs to China, shelving differences and seeking joint development", and become a big obstacle of the settlement for the South China Sea dispute. So Description, interpretation and analysis of Vietnam’s South China Sea policies is very important for China in theoretical and practical which promote the process of "the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road ". Only careful analysis Vietnam’s South China Sea policies can we put forward countermeasures which can give us a dominant position in this dispute.